Using tests to enhance 8th grade students' retention of U.S. history facts

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 760-771

  Carpenter, Shana K ^a,b   Pashler, Harold ^b   Cepeda, Nicholas J ^b,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350298991     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1507     Document Type: Article

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